The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 10, 2024

Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

before 1982
(750–1258) or Buyid period (945–1055)
Overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.
  • ?-1982
    (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1982-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55. Mentioned: cat. no. 70, p. 53 www.jstor.org
  • The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983
  • {{cite web|title=Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals|url=false|author=|year=before 1982|access-date=10 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.22